top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-07-18

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/

2 months ago

948 upvotes – 905 comments

Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

https://bozmen.io/fhe

2 months ago

449 upvotes – 198 comments

“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1172

2 months ago

422 upvotes – 211 comments

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/

2 months ago

365 upvotes – 354 comments

lsr: ls with io_uring

https://rockorager.dev/log/lsr-ls-but-with-io-uring/

2 months ago

351 upvotes – 170 comments

Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html

2 months ago

335 upvotes – 516 comments

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-tumor-dna-blood-test-screening

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 140 comments

Asynchrony is not concurrency

https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/

2 months ago

311 upvotes – 216 comments

NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718.html

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 198 comments

NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/nypd-fdny-clearview-ai-ban-columbia-palestinian-protest/

2 months ago

301 upvotes – 172 comments

How I keep up with AI progress

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 118 comments

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367557/

2 months ago

273 upvotes – 291 comments

How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026694/3413f4b43c862629/

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 23 comments

ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-access-medicaid-data/

2 months ago

267 upvotes – 291 comments

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download

2 months ago

264 upvotes – 147 comments

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 297 comments

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/08f1d17c020e8292/

2 months ago

253 upvotes – 265 comments

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44604257

2 months ago

245 upvotes – 189 comments

Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164

2 months ago

244 upvotes – 135 comments

LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-calls-out-microsoft-for-using-complex-file-formats-to-lock-in-office-users/

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 131 comments
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